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"Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin The country has bartered away its Russian identity for an “abstract and absurd alternative,” the political scientist has said Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin Alexandr Dugin. © Sputnik Ukrainians have become “collective transgenders” in their desire to get closer to the West and cut ties with Moscow, Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksandr Dugin has said."

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?"

Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

Valorie Van-Dieman from Assigned Media in a hat with lesbian pride colors speaking excitedly with a trans man in a grey coat and baby blue hat who is participating in a protest in front of the Supreme Court in December 2024.

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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots "Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"

www.404media.co/developer-cr...

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Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.

Another rejects pardon.

When he mentioned his husband I was angry in Queer. Then when he mentioned he's a recovering alcoholic who wasn't recovering at that time, I went 'Ohhhh'.

It's a good read.

And for the repentant, this is how you atone. You speak up and out.

Full Movies | Warner Bros. Entertainment - YouTube Watch your favorite full movies here from Warner Bros. Entertainment! All your favorite legends are here including Jackie Chan, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O'Ha...

Warner Bros are uploading full movies to their YouTube channel to watch for free.

The initial batch is like being in the video store on a Saturday night five minutes before they shut.

A couple of gems in there though.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

They set up a snitch line for DEI in the federal government. If you feel like sending your best copies of the bee movie script or some queer smut, have at it.

DEIAtruth@opm.gov

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it.

Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember:

You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

Loops by Pixelfed Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!

Open source TikTok clone loops.video entered public tests around the start of this month and I've been really wanting to tell people onhere about it but I wish I could have promoted it on terms of "it's less corporate" and not "the increasingly fascist government is forcing you to stop using TikTok"

Incidentally the Pixelfed dude is soon coming out with Loops, a currently-beta service which hosts video instead of images and replicates the feel of TikTok moreso than Instagram. It looks really good and from what I've seen of the UI/UX it's user-friendly in the way Bluesky is and Mastodon isn't

Ah I hadn’t even considered health department, I thought it was a housing thing that the landlord is responsible for. And tbh it’s been an issue for maybe a year or so but it’s more intolerable this winter. I did speak to the landlord about it yesterday though so she’ll have someone look into it

I don’t know tbh. “Soft to moderately hard” is the oh-so-useful result when I try to google what nyc’s water is. What’s the impact of hard water in this case?

Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

However long the hot water tank is supposed to take to replenish so that the next person can take a reasonably warm shower, my apartment’s is failing so hard. It’s been more than 5 hours since my kids bathed and I’m currently cramping from my 5 minute shower because my muscles are all locked up. 🥶

I can’t get over how cartoonishly evil this is

putting in your fucking “hate speech” policy that a particular kind of hate speech against a particular group of people is explicitly allowed - and therefore encouraged - is the kind of shit that should be done from a volcano lair with a shark moat

"I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue."

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

And money quote from Lorrie: "it's really shown me that this is seven long books about pedagogy"

I'm editing @hpafter2020.bsky.social and @lorriekim.bsky.social & JC's talk with Brett Satterly for an upcoming s8 episode, is I think one of my favorite talks they've had all show. Like, the kind where I'm like, should I have gone into social work?? I miss having teachers I just loved to hear SPEAK

One of my classes this semester did a section on AI in ministry, and I am strongly opposed to it. Feedback was that it will be present, so how am I going to include it?

I’m going to fight it every step of the way. The climate, the irreplaceable human soul in preaching and worship? The theft.

No.

If it needs to be said, I went looking for what on earth that was referring to because I was like, what’s Tom Holland got to do with a racist attack on that woman? And it turns out they’re in Romeo and Juliet together and she got piled on for the casting because, you know, the internet is a cesspit.

George Takei screenshot of the page sharing images of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, a Black actress, and Tom Holland, a white actor, with the commentary: Heartbreaking that this needed to be said in 2024...hopefully there is less of such hatred in the new year ahead.

I’ve noticed Facebook posts by bigger pages have started to do what Twitter best practices have been, which is posting only images and then linking an article or whatever offsite in a pinned comment. (A reply, on Twitter.) It is so incredibly obnoxious as a practice. Fucking algorithms.

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

I'm not on here super consistently but I got a whiff of Blacksky folks talking about Luther Vandross being queer (I gather) from a new documentary, and I'm just gonna say that I'm grateful to be able to keep up with such things that I might otherwise miss.

i love fan exchanges the concept is so funny like what if we all loved these guys so much that we gave ourselves homework about it

That author is on ao3… 👀 I sub to them. But now that I’m looking at their fandoms list there’s no ofmd! Huh.